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The worst floods in a more than a decade have devastated large areas of Cambodia, causing 247 deaths, displacing 46,000 households and disrupting the lives of 1.2 million people. The crisis is part of a region-wide emergency, in which seasonal rains and back-to-back typhoons have caused flooding across SE...

The humanitarian crisis in Côte d’Ivoire needs an urgent boost in international funding, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator said on Wednesday, during a European tour to draw more attention to the country’s fragile recovery.
More than 194,000 people are internally displaced, and more...

Since April 2010, Nigel Fisher has led a massive relief operation to help millions of Haitians overcome a string of devastating disasters. On January 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake destroyed vast parts of the capital city of Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas – killing several hundred...

National authorities, the UN and aid agencies are accelerating their response to multiple cholera outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, part of a region-wide effort to curb an epidemic across western and central Africa.
In the western DRC, more than 7,000 people have fallen ill and 390 people...

The growing humanitarian crisis in Yemen has alarming consequences for the education and wellbeing of tens of thousands of children, a new OCHA Situation Report on the emergency highlighted today.
“Throughout Yemen, children’s access is challenged by the occupation of schools by internally...